Community Education & Prevention
Mental health and substance use treatment doesn’t start only at the individual level when someone begins counseling services. Intervention starts at the community level through prevention and building awareness of the risk factors and protective factors associated with mental health and substance use difficulties. Our Behavioral Health team is a strong advocate and implementor of community-based prevention strategies through community education. We deliver proactive services designed to reduce individual, family, and environmental risk factors, increase resiliency, and enhance protective factors to promote a healthy Kendall County.
Please feel free to contact us at (630) 553-9100 if you have any questions about potential community education presentations on comprehensive mental health and wellbeing topics.
Training Services
- Community-based training on mental health and substance abuse topics to schools, police/fire, libraries, faith-based organizations, and diverse civic organizations.
- Early Intervention psychoeducation for students and families referred from Kendall County Schools.
- Narcan training is available for all community members to ensure our community is trained in the life-saving measures to reduce the negative impact of opioid overdoses and fatalities.
Specific Training Topics Can Include, But Aren't Limited To
- Identifying mental health risks in students, peers, and loved ones
- Specific mental health disorders and appropriate treatment options, such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, etc.
- Identifying risk for substance use in students, peers, and loved ones
- Risks associated with tobacco use or vaping and resources towards smoking cessation
- How you can support your loved one(s) through a behavioral health crisis or concern
- Crisis intervention for suicidal and self-harm behaviors
- Narcan and opioid overdose prevention
- How to encourage positive emotional development and the introduction of coping skills
- Education and training for caregivers and finding balance for healthy caregiving
Coming Soon!
The Kendall County Health Department is currently in the process of becoming a Continuing Education Provider for social workers, counselors, and other behavioral health professionals in our community.
As we build our CEU curriculum and schedule, please feel free to submit CEU topics, ideas, and proposals.
Click here for the Continuing Education (CEU) Trainings for Kendall County Survey.
We appreciate your input and look forward to providing free CEU opportunities for our fellow partners in behavioral health! We will try to incorporate all topic requests and feedback to the best of our ability, capacity, and expertise.
Stay tuned as we will post our upcoming CEU events and topics here!
Levels of Prevention in Public Health